Showbiz Rape

MOHALI: The Zirakpur police has booked a man for allegedly raping a 27-year-old aspiring model. An FIR in this regard was lodged on Wednesday late night after the woman approached the cops. In her police complaint, the woman has stated that she had come to the city a few years ago to make a career in modelling. In the process ...

New Delhi – India’s top court on Friday upheld the acquittal of a Bollywood director accused of raping an American research scholar in a case that has sparked intense debate about consent in a country with high levels of sexual violence. Mahmood Farooqui was initially found guilty of rape in 2016, but the Delhi high court last year overturned the ...

NOIDA: A 40-year-old small-time film producer was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping his 25-year-old domestic help and blackmailing her with an MMS clip he recorded of the crime in Noida. The accused, Anoop Ganguli, is a resident of Sector 15. According to police, Ganguli had shot small films and produced TV serials. The crime came to light when the ...

A high court judge has acquitted an Indian man of rape ruling a “feeble no” may mean “yes” to sex. Delhi High Court Justice Ashutosh Kumar set aside the rape conviction of Indian actor and director Mahmood Farooqui on Monday, The Washington Post reports. Mr Farroqui was convicted of raping a Columbia University student in his Delhi home last year. ...

Even as the Malayalam actress assault case continues to grab headlines, a new molestation case of a Telugu actress has come in the limelight. The Times of India reported that the actress has filed a police complaint against director Chalapathi and actor Srujan, accusing both of attempting to rape her in a car. She has alleged that although she was ...

Mumbai: Actress and a winner of a renowned beauty pageant has complained to the police that a businessman molested her in a five-star hotel in Juhu last week. According to the police, the complainant is a 27-year-old woman, a winner of the Miss Delhi competition and an actress who has worked in two Hindi films. She had met the businessman ...

KOCHI: A famous actor from the south Indian film industry was allegedly raped inside her moving Audi on Friday night while she was headed for Kochi from her home in Thrissur. The man driving her car, Martin, and Sunil Kumar, aka Pulsar Sunil, a historysheeter, allegedly connived to stage an accident before she was raped. While Martin has been arrested, ...

Kochi, A still photographer was arrested here today for allegedly raping and cheating an aspiring actress on the pretext of getting her a lead role in a movie, police said. Jinson Lonappan was arrested based on a complaint by the woman, a dentist in her early 20s, that he had raped her and had also taken Rs 33 lakh for ...